EP0872779B1 - Drucksystem mit einer Kassettensteuerung für blattförmige Aufzeichnungsträger - Google Patents

Drucksystem mit einer Kassettensteuerung für blattförmige Aufzeichnungsträger Download PDF

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EP0872779B1
EP0872779B1 EP98302664A EP98302664A EP0872779B1 EP 0872779 B1 EP0872779 B1 EP 0872779B1 EP 98302664 A EP98302664 A EP 98302664A EP 98302664 A EP98302664 A EP 98302664A EP 0872779 B1 EP0872779 B1 EP 0872779B1
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John W. Daughton
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  • This invention relates generally to a printing system with one or more print media supply trays and, more particularly, to a control system for the one or more configurable print media supply trays, wherein the degree to which each configurable print media supply tray can be reconfigured is controlled as a function of the operational mode in which the print media supply tray is disposed.
  • a typical printing system is provided with one or more print media supply trays for feeding a print media sheet to a print engine to receive an image in the form of, for example, a developed image.
  • the supply or feed tray is provided with certain size sensing capability for a variety of reasons.
  • a knowledge of size allows the system to apprise a user of which sheet sizes can be printed at a host machine. With sheet or stock size taken into account, a user can avoid the situation in which an oversized image is printed on an undersized print media sheet without appropriate reduction/enlargement operation(s).
  • movable guides are provided in one or two dimensions, while detection of guide movement is achieved with a set of sensors or switches. More particularly, as the guides are moved in one direction or another, a corresponding media size is registered at a suitable display.
  • a media detection system facilitates the configuration of a given print media sheet tray for printing.
  • Examples of prior art systems to measure (sense) input tray side guide settings, and to use that measurement to estimate the other (orthogonal) dimension of the documents in a known manner from a look-up table stored in memory of standard sizes of sheet include Xerox Corporation U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,511,771, 4,579,444, 4,745,438 (e.g. Col. 11), 3,689,143, and 4,351,606 and 5,333,852; also U.S. Pat. Nos. and 4,406,537 of others. Also noted is a Xerox Disclosure Journal Publication Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 89, dated March/April 1986, by William A. Henry, II.
  • a printing system may be provided with the capability of designating a media supply tray with other attribute indications.
  • a conventional electronic printing system such as the DocuTech Production Publisher ("DocuTech” is a registered trademark of Xerox Corporation used in conjunction with the sale of electronic printing systems)
  • DocuTech is a registered trademark of Xerox Corporation used in conjunction with the sale of electronic printing systems
  • a given print media tray may be characterized by a size attribute as well as at least two other stock characteristics, namely "type" and color. Accordingly, in one example, a given tray may be characterized by "8.5 x 11, standard, white”.
  • US-A-5,081,595 discloses a printing system including a plurality of print media trays in which the size of the print media is detected for each tray and displayed on the display of a user interface. Additionally, as print media sheets are added to each of the trays, attributes for type and color corresponding with the pint media to be provided are programmed with the user interface. In this way the user of the printing system, typically a system administrator ("SA") knows exactly what type of media is in each tray. Additionally, each job processed by the system includes a job ticket designating the three print media attributes of each print sheet to be processed by the system. By comparing media attributes designated in the job ticket with the attributes programmed at the print media supply trays, the system is able to inform the user as to which print media supply trays are no longer required for processing the current job.
  • SA system administrator
  • the ability to program print media trays is particularly significant in the network printing area since a remote user or "client” is not necessarily within close proximity of the trays and is thus not able to change corresponding media supply readily.
  • US-A-5,129,639 discloses a substitution approach in which a job programmed with a certain set of stock attributes cannot be executed at a given printer as a result of a mismatch between what the job calls for, in terms of stock attributes, and what is actually available, in terms of stock at the printer.
  • the user either permits the job to be marked with substitute stock, for avoiding the mismatch, or simply allows the given printer or SA to provide a "best match" for the requested stock.
  • each of the print media trays of the printing system of US-A-5,081,595 and US-A-5,129,639 are "fully adjustable" in that they can be configured to accommodate for both size and other key media attributes (e.g., type and color).
  • This approach is well suited for those situations in which an SA is present to reprogram the trays each time the print media attributes of a current job change significantly.
  • the printing system of the '595 Patent as disclosed, teaches that the print media trays are reprogrammed as the requirements of the incoming jobs change. For a machine without an SA, however, the constant reprogramming of all of the print media trays may be undesirable.
  • the invention consists in a printing system having a print media sheet tray control system, said printing system of the type in which image representations generated from image data are marked on print media sheets, the image representations being marked on the print media sheets in response to one or more control instructions provided to the printing system by a system user, characterised by a configurable print media sheet tray for storing the print media sheets upon which the image representations are to be marked, the configurable print media sheet tray having a set of print media attributes disposable in a selected state with the print media attribute set being disposed in a first state, said configurable print media sheet tray being configurable in one or other of a first operational mode and a second operational mode; a controller for selectively configuring the configurable print media sheet tray into the first operational mode or the second operational mode; and said controller disabling printing system operation when said configurable print media sheet tray is disposed in the first operational mode and the system user attempts to operate the printing system with the selected state of the print media attribute set being altered from the first state to a second state, and said controller
  • the invention consists in a method of operating a printing system having a print media sheet tray control system, said printing system of the type in which image representations generated from image data are marked on print media sheets in response to one or more control instructions provided to the printing system by a system user, the print media sheets stored in a configurable print media sheet tray having a set of print media attributes disposable in a selected state with the print media attribute set being disposed in a first state, said configurable print media sheet tray being configurable in one or other of a first operational mode and a second operational mode, and a controller for selectively configuring the configurable print media sheet tray into the first operational mode or the second operational mode; the method characterised by the steps of:
  • a digital printing apparatus of the type suitable for use with the preferred embodiment is designated with the numeral 1.
  • the system includes a document feeder 2 and an operation (and display) panel or user interface 3.
  • the document feeder 2 conveys a document to a predetermined reading position on an image reading device 4 and, after the document has been read, drives it away from the reading position.
  • the image reading device 4 illuminates the document brought to the reading position thereof.
  • the resulting reflection from the document is transformed to a corresponding electric signal, or image signal, by a solid state imaging device, e.g., a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensor.
  • An image forming device 5 forms an image represented by the image signal on a plain paper or a thermosensitive paper by an electrophotographic, thermosensitive, heat transfer, ink jet or similar conventional system.
  • a duplex copy unit 6 is constructed to turn over the paper carrying the image on one side thereof and again feed it to the image forming device 5. As a result, an image is formed on the other side of the paper to complete a duplex copy.
  • the duplex copy unit 6 has customarily been designed to refeed the paper immediately or to sequentially refeed a plurality of papers stacked one upon the other, from the bottom paper to the top paper.
  • the papers, or duplex copies, driven out of the image forming device 5 are sequentially sorted by a output device 7 in order of page or page by page.
  • Applications generally 9, share the document feeder 1, operation panel 2, image reading device 3, image forming device 5, duplex unit 6, output device 7, and paper cassettes 8 which are the resources built in the copier system.
  • the applications include a copier application, a printer (IOT) application, a facsimile (Fax) application and other applications.
  • the digital copier system is coupled with a network by way of a conventional network connection 11.
  • the printing system 10 includes a printing machine 1 operatively coupled with a network service module 14.
  • the printing machine 1 includes an electronic subsystem 16, referred to as a video control module (VCM), communicating with a scanner 18 and a printer 20.
  • VCM video control module
  • the VCM 16 which is described in detail in U.S. Patent No. 5,579,447 to Salgado coordinates the operation of the scanner and printer in a digital copying arrangement.
  • the scanner 18 also referred to as image input terminal (IIT)
  • IIT image input terminal
  • an image processing system associated with the scanner 18, executes signal correction and the like, converts the corrected signals into multi-level signals (e.g. binary signals), compresses the multi-level signals and preferably stores the same in electronic precollation (not shown).
  • multi-level signals e.g. binary signals
  • the printer 20 (also referred to as image output terminal (IOT)) preferably includes a xerographic print engine.
  • the print engine has a multi-pitch belt (not shown) which is written on with an imaging source, such as a synchronous source (e.g. laser raster output scanning device) or an asynchronous source (e.g. LED print bar).
  • an imaging source such as a synchronous source (e.g. laser raster output scanning device) or an asynchronous source (e.g. LED print bar).
  • the multi-level image data is read out of the EPC memory, while the imaging source is turned on and off, in accordance with the image data, forming a latent image on the photoreceptor.
  • the latent image is developed with, for example, a hybrid jumping development technique and transferred to a print media sheet.
  • the printer can assume other forms besides a xerographic print engine without altering the concept upon which the disclosed embodiment is based.
  • the printing system 10 could be implemented with a thermal ink jet or ionographic printer.
  • the network service module 14 is discussed in further detail.
  • the architecture of the network service module is similar to that of a known "PC clone". More particularly, in one example, a controller 24 assumes the form of a SPARC processor, manufactured by Sun Microsystems, Inc., is coupled with a standard SBus 26.
  • a host memory 28 which preferably assumes the form of DRAM, and a SCSI disk drive device 30 are coupled operatively to the SBus 26.
  • a storage or I/O device could be coupled with the SBus with a suitable interface chip.
  • the SBus is coupled with a network 34 by way of an appropriate network interface 36.
  • the network interface includes all of the hardware and software necessary to relate the hardware/software components of the controller 24 with the hardware/software components of the network 34.
  • the network interface could be provided with, among other software, Netware® from Novell Corp.
  • the network 34 includes a client, such as a workstation 38 with an emitter or driver 40.
  • a user may generate a job including a plurality of electronic pages and a set of processing instructions.
  • the job is converted, with the emitter, into a representation written in a page description language, such as PostScript.
  • the job is then transmitted to the controller 24 where it is interpreted with a decomposer, such as one provided by Adobe Corporation.
  • HCF high capacity feeder
  • SMH special materials handler
  • the HCF is adapted to hold relatively more print media sheets than the other trays
  • the SMH is used for, among other things, accommodating special stock, such as envelopes, smaller size paper, letterhead or media for special jobs.
  • the HCF and SMH are structured as a combination which is mounted adjacent the printing subsystem. The significance of the HCF and the SMH will appear below.
  • two trays are internal to the host copier 1 ( Figure 1) while the HCF and SMH are external to the host copier.
  • the internal paper trays are pulled out by an operator for loading, but are not locked to prevent them from being pulled out at inappropriate times.
  • a determination or confirmation of stock type follows in accordance with the principles discussed below.
  • the stock size in the internal trays is determined by an array of contacts that sense the placement paper tray side guides (not shown). These contacts provide for 15 different "size zones" for the paper in the tray. Each of these zones has a non-settable size range associated with it that is determined by the edge guide placement.
  • An NVM setting defines the default paper size for each size zone in the internal paper trays. This default paper size for each zone applies to that zone setting in all of the internal paper trays (commonly, there is no independent default size per zone for each tray).
  • each tray is programmed in at least one of two modes or configurations.
  • the three tray configurations referred to above include the following:
  • Each tray is preferably defined by a set of properties, which includes:
  • each print media sheet tray 8 ( Figure 1) communicates with the user interface ("UI") 3 by way of a suitable controller (e.g. controller 24 of Figure 3).
  • UI user interface
  • controller 24 of Figure 3 e.g. controller 24 of Figure 3
  • a SA is able to use the controller for configuring each print media sheet tray as either Fixed, Fully Adjustable or Size Adjustable.
  • a mechanical locking mechanism could be provided to one or more of the trays to lock the size guides into place, thus making size adjustment difficult if not impossible.
  • guide locking capability could be achieved with a set of electromechanical switches disposed in or on the print media sheet tray, the switches communicating with the controller 24 for the sake of disposing the tray in the fixed mode.
  • tray behavior namely behavior with respect to (1) adjustable trays, (2) size adjustment, (3) type/color adjustment, and (4) fixed trays:
  • a screen or window 44 ( Figure 4) is opened, the open window informs the operator or system user of current settings for the tray (size, type, and color), instructions, and provides options for changing the attribute settings.
  • the window 44 preferably contains a first region 46 with the following items:
  • the window 44 contains a second region 50 containing a tool bar with the following items:
  • the settable attributes are size, type, and color.
  • the stock size is, in one preferred example, determined automatically by the positions of the guides in the tray or the operator can choose to enter the size manually.
  • the displayed size will be dynamically updated if a change in the size is detected while the window is open. If the change in size results in a change in the attributes which must be displayed, these will be updated dynamically also.
  • the size guides in the tray are changed such that the tray reports a new "size range" the default size for the new zone will be displayed and the attributes of the stock will be reset to their defaults.
  • the operator confirms the current attributes or the changed attributes before the window is removed and the tray becomes available for use by the system.
  • the regions or areas 54 and 56 Upon entry into the Change Size window, the regions or areas 54 and 56 will initially contain default values which vary as a function of the zones, the range of the zones being displayed above the areas 54 and 56. Using the keypad (not shown) the values in the areas can be altered provided such values are consistent with the displayed zones. If inappropriate size values are inputted, the user is provided with a suitable fault message.
  • a window with a tool bar containing a variable for tray number is provided for adjusting stock type and stock color.
  • lists 58 and 60 include the types and colors supported by the system, and may be scrolled through with accompanying soft buttons. As contemplated herein, further types of color and/or types can be added to the lists in order to accommodate for a user's desire to provide customized print media. Selection of type/color attributes is, in one example, obtained by touching suitable lines, such as "Standard" and "White”.
  • the window of Figure 6 further includes a Save button (for saving selections made in the window and closing the window), a Cancel button (for resetting selections to values which were present when the window was opened and closing the window) and a Reset button (for resetting selections to values present when the window was opened and maintaining the window in an open state).
  • a Save button for saving selections made in the window and closing the window
  • a Cancel button for resetting selections to values which were present when the window was opened and closing the window
  • a Reset button for resetting selections to values present when the window was opened and maintaining the window in an open state.
  • a window ( Figure 7) informing the operator of the fixed nature of the tray setting is provided.
  • the window contains a dynamic graphic to represent the current tray as well as dynamic text regions for the following:
  • a wide range of programmability or configurability may be provided to accommodate for the varying skill level of those using the machine. More particularly, it should be understood that the presently disclosed printing system is intended for use by highly skilled operators, e.g. SAs, as well as highly unskilled operators, e.g. "walk-up" users. Essentially, the community of system users must be protected from the lack of skill of certain walk-up users without losing the ability to program the host printing apparatus with a significant degree of flexibility. By providing a system in which the attributes of certain trays can be completely or partially fixed, one or more trays can be set as dedicated trays. This is particularly useful when stocks with certain attributes are used frequently by the system community. On the other hand, through the provision of an adjustable tray, special printing needs of the community can still be met.
  • the control arrangement does more than simply make recommendations as to what trays should be fixed.
  • the system insures that the attributes of the fixed tray cannot be overridden as a result of the whim of a casual user.
  • This sort of tray fixing insures that a tray intended for a dedicated use, such as a high capacity feeder, is maintained in that state for the benefit of the system community as a whole.
  • control arrangement is designed in such a manner that users of an adjustable tray are more than simply encouraged to be "good citizens". In particular, it is undesirable to reconfigure a print media sheet tray without informing the system as to what reconfiguration has occurred. If a user, for example, puts 8.5 x 11 transparencies in a tray, then that user should be appropriately prompted to reprogram the tray from 8.5 x 11 standard/white so that a network user is not "fooled” as to what actually exists in the tray. Accordingly, the control arrangement forces each user to confirm his/her reprogramming of an adjustable tray each time s/he uses that tray.
  • control arrangement has a high degree of interactivity at the user interface. If a tray is partially or completely fixed, then the user knows it through the user interface which provides a wide variety of appropriate messages. Moreover, if a tray is being reconfigured, the user interface forces the user to "do the right thing" by prompting the user to be aware of what reprogramming might be required in view of the action taken by the user with respect to the tray.

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  1. Drucksystem (10) mit einem Druckmedienblattbehälter-Steuersystem, wobei das Drucksystem von dem Typ ist, bei dem Bilddarstellungen, die aus Bilddaten erzeugt werden, auf Druckmedienblätter aufgezeichnet werden, und die Bilddarstellungen in Reaktion auf einen oder mehrere Steuerbefehle, die dem Drucksystem (10) von einem Systembenutzer zugeführt werden, auf die Druckmedienblätter aufgezeichnet werden, gekennzeichnet durch:
    einen konfigurierbaren Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) zum Aufbewahren der Druckmedienblätter, auf die die Bilddarstellungen aufgezeichnet werden sollen, wobei der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) einen Satz Druckmedienattribute aufweist, die in einem ausgewählten Zustand eingerichtet werden können, wobei der Druckmedienattribut-Satz in einem ersten Zustand eingerichtet ist und der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in der einen oder der anderen, d.h. einer ersten Betriebsart oder einer zweiten Betriebsart, konfiguriert werden kann;
    eine Steuerung (24), die den konfigurierbaren Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in die erste Betriebsart oder die zweite Betriebsart konfiguriert; und
    wobei die Steuerung (24) Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) sperrt, wenn der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in der ersten Betriebsart eingerichtet ist und der Systembenutzer versucht, das Drucksystem (10) zu betreiben, wenn der ausgewählte Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes aus dem ersten Zustand in einen zweiten Zustand geändert wird, und die Steuerung (24) Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) freigibt, wenn der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in dem zweiten Betriebszustand eingerichtet ist und der Systembenutzer den ausgewählten Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes entsprechend einem ausgewählten Änderungsablauf aus dem ersten Zustand in den zweiten Zustand geändert hat.
  2. Drucksystem nach Anspruch 1, wobei der Druckmedienattribut-Satz ein erstes Druckmedienattribut und ein zweites Druckmedienattribut enthält und in der ersten Betriebsart die Steuerung (24) Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) untersagt, wenn entweder das erste Druckmedienattribut oder das zweite Druckmedienattribut in Bezug auf eine vorgewählte Einstellung eingestellt ist, und die Steuerung (24) in der zweiten Betriebsart Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) gestattet, wenn eine beliebige Änderung entweder des ersten Druckmedienattributes oder des zweiten Druckmedienattributes entsprechend dem ausgewählten Änderungsablauf durchgeführt wird.
  3. Drucksystem nach Anspruch 2, wobei der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in einer dritten Betriebsart konfiguriert werden kann und die Steuerung (24) Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) gestattet, wenn der Systembenutzer nur ein ausgewähltes, d.h. das erste Druckmedienattribut oder das zweite Druckmedienattribut, einstellt, wobei die Auswahl des Druckmedienattributes von der Steuerung (24) durchgeführt wird.
  4. Drucksystem nach Anspruch 3, wobei das Drucksystem (10) in der dritten Betriebsart eingerichtet ist und die Steuerung (24) Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) sperrt, wenn der Systembenutzer versucht, das Drucksystem (10) zu betreiben, wenn sowohl das erste Druckattribut als auch das zweite Druckattribut in Bezug auf ihre vorherige vorgewählte Einstellung zurückgesetzt werden.
  5. Drucksystem nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Steuerung (24) zusammen mit einem Speicherabschnitt (28) sowohl die Betriebsart, in der der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) eingerichtet ist, als auch vorherige Einstellungen des ersten und des zweiten Druckmedienattributes registriert, und wobei der konfigurierbare Druckmedienbehälter in der ersten Betriebsart eingerichtet ist, wobei:
    die Steuerung (24), bevor sie Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) gestattet, bestimmt, ob der ausgewählte Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes aus dem ersten Zustand in den zweiten Zustand geändert worden ist; und
    wenn die Steuerung (24) bestimmt, dass der ausgewählte Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes aus dem ersten Zustand in den zweiten Zustand geändert worden ist, die Steuerung (24) das Aufzeichnen auf Druckblätter untersagt, bis der ausgewählte Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes in den ersten Zustand zurückgesetzt worden ist.
  6. Drucksystem nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, das des Weiteren eine Benutzerschnittstelle (3) umfasst, die mit der Steuerung (24) kommuniziert, wobei die Benutzerschnittstelle (3) eine Anzeigeeinrichtung enthält, die anzeigt, ob der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in der ersten Betriebsart oder der zweiten Betriebsart eingerichtet ist.
  7. Drucksystem nach Anspruch 6, wobei der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in der zweiten Betriebsart eingerichtet ist und das des Weiteren eine grafische Darstellung (46) eines Attributelementes veränderlicher Größe, wobei der ausgewählte Änderungsablauf Einstellen der grafischen Darstellung eines Attributelementes veränderlicher Größe auf der Anzeigeeinrichtung der Benutzerschnittstelle (3) einschließt, oder eine vorprogrammierte Attributliste umfasst, wobei der ausgewählte Änderungsvorgang das Ändern des ausgewählten Zustandes des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes aus dem ersten Zustand in den zweiten Zustand mit der vorprogrammierten Attributliste einschließt, und wobei ein Benutzer in der Lage ist, die vorprogrammierte Liste zu modifizieren, um eine bestimmte Druckmedienattribut-Anforderung des Benutzers zu unterstützen, oder wobei der ausgewählte Änderungsablauf das Anzeigen der grafischen Darstellung des konfigurierbaren Druckmedienblattbehälters (8) und das Nutzen derselben zum Bestimmen einer Ausrichtung von Druckmedienblättern, die in den konfigurierbaren Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) eingelegt werden sollen, einschließt.
  8. Drucksystem nach Anspruch 6, wobei, wenn der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in der ersten Betriebsart eingerichtet ist und der Systembenutzer versucht, das Drucksystem (10) zu betreiben, wenn der ausgewählte Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes aus dem ersten Zustand in den zweiten Zustand geändert ist, eine Mitteilung auf der Anzeigeeinrichtung der Benutzerschnittstelle (3) angezeigt wird, die anzeigt, dass Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) untersagt ist, wenn sich der Druckmedienattribut-Satz in dem zweiten Zustand befindet.
  9. Drucksystem nach Anspruch 8, wobei der ausgewählte Änderungsvorgang einschließt, dass der Systembenutzer vor dem Aufzeichnen auf Druckmedienblätter aufgefordert wird, über die Benutzerschnittstelle (3) ein Bestätigungssignal für das Drucksystem (10) zu erzeugen.
  10. Drucksystem nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, das eine Vielzahl von Druckmedienblattbehältern (8) enthält, wobei ein erster der Vielzahl von Druckmedienblattbehältem (8) ein erster Typ Druckmedienblatt-Zuführvorrichtung ist und ein zweiter der Vielzahl von Druckmedienblattbehältern (8) ein zweiter Typ Druckmedienblatt-Zuführvorrichtung ist und jeder der Vielzahl von Druckmedienblattbehältern, der dem ersten Typ Druckmedienblatt-Zuführvorrichtung entspricht, so konfiguriert ist, dass er in der ersten Betriebsart arbeitet, und jeder der Vielzahl von Druckmedienbehältern (8), der dem zweiten Typ Druckmedienblatt-Zuführvorrichtung entspricht, so konfiguriert ist, dass er in der zweiten Betriebsart arbeitet.
  11. Verfahren zum Betreiben eines Drucksystems mit einem Druckmedienblattbehälter-Steuersystem, wobei das Drucksystem von dem Typ ist, bei dem Bilddarstellungen, die aus Bilddaten erzeugt werden, in Reaktion auf einen oder mehrere Steuerbefehle, die dem Drucksystem (10) von einem Systembenutzer zugeführt werden, auf Druckmedienblätter gedruckt werden, wobei die Druckmedienblätter in einem konfigurierbaren Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) aufbewahrt werden, der einen Satz Druckmedienattribute aufweist, die in einem ausgewählten Zustand eingerichtet werden können, wobei der Druckmedienattribut-Satz in einem ersten Zustand eingerichtet ist, und der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in der einen oder der anderen, d.h. einer ersten Betriebsart oder einer zweiten Betriebsart, konfiguriert werden kann, und eine Steuerung (24) dazu dient, den konfigurierbaren Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in die erste Betriebsart oder die zweite Betriebsart zu konfigurieren, wobei das Verfahren durch die folgenden Schritte gekennzeichnet ist:
    Sperren des Betriebes des Drucksystems (10), wenn der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in der ersten Betriebsart eingerichtet ist und der Systembenutzer versucht, das Drucksystem (10) zu betreiben, wenn der ausgewählte Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes aus dem ersten Zustand in einen zweiten Zustand geändert wird, und
    Freigeben des Betriebes des Drucksystems (10), wenn der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in der zweiten Betriebsart eingerichtet ist und der Systembenutzer den ausgewählten Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes entsprechend einem ausgewählten Änderungsablauf aus dem ersten Zustand in den zweiten Zustand ändert.
  12. Verfahren nach Anspruch 11, wobei der Druckmedienattribut-Satz ein erstes Druckmedienattribut und ein zweites Druckmedienattribut enthält, und in der ersten Betriebsart die Steuerung (24) Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) untersagt, wenn entweder das erste Druckmedienattribut oder das zweite Druckmedienattribut in Bezug auf eine vorgewählte Einstellung eingestellt ist, und die Steuerung (24) in der zweiten Betriebsart Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) gestattet, wenn eine beliebige Änderung entweder des ersten Druckmedienattributes oder des zweiten Druckmedienattributes entsprechend dem ausgewählten Änderungsvorgang durchgeführt wird.
  13. Verfahren nach Anspruch 12, wobei der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) in einer dritten Betriebsart konfiguriert werden kann, und die Steuerung (24) Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) gestattet, wenn der Systembenutzer nur ein ausgewähltes, d.h. das erste Druckmedienattribut oder das zweite Druckmedienattribut, einstellt, wobei die Auswahl des Druckmedienattributes von der Steuerung (24) durchgeführt wird.
  14. Verfahren nach Anspruch 13, wobei das Drucksystem (10) in der dritten Betriebsart eingerichtet ist und die Steuerung (24) Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) sperrt, wenn der Systembenutzer versucht, das Drucksystem (10) zu betreiben, wenn sowohl das erste Druckattribut als auch das zweite Druckattribut in Bezug auf ihre vorherige vorgewählte Einstellung zurückgesetzt werden.
  15. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 11 bis 14, wobei die Steuerung (24) zusammen mit einem Speicherabschnitt (28) sowohl die Betriebsart, in der der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter (8) eingerichtet ist, als auch vorherigen Einstellungen des ersten und des zweiten Druckmedienattributes registriert, und wobei der konfigurierbare Druckmedienblattbehälter in der ersten Betriebsart eingerichtet ist, wobei:
    die Steuerung (24), bevor sie Betrieb des Drucksystems (10) gestattet, bestimmt, ob der ausgewählte Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes aus dem ersten Zustand in den zweiten Zustand geändert worden ist; und
    wenn die Steuerung (24) bestimmt, dass der ausgewählte Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes aus dem ersten Zustand in den zweiten Zustand geändert worden ist, die Steuerung (24) das Aufzeichnen auf Druckblätter untersagt, bis der ausgewählte Zustand des Druckmedienattribut-Satzes in den ersten Zustand zurückgesetzt worden ist.
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